Pressing icons and buttons displayed on the touchscreen also gives tactile feedback.

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To sensitive touch typists, the thin keyboards that are all the rage now known as membrane keyboards are sluggish and don't provide enough tactile feedback.

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Some of HTC's handsets (like the EVO 3D, myTouch 4G Slide and EVO 4G LTE) have keys offering better tactile feedback.

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The touch screen is much more robust than others we have seen, and a device in the phone provides tactile feedback when you push a virtual key.

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It refuses to react, no matter how hard one pushes, making us long for the simplicity of the virtual keyboard, which, while not offering any tactile feedback, actually, you know, does something.

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The keys are big and give tactile feedback.

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Mira has been investigating how to use haptic, tactile feedback systems to safely get the attention of riders and warn them about other vehicles, prepare them for the road ahead or give help at junctions.

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The semi-touch screen is also an interesting variation on the usual touchscreen style, with tactile buzzing feedback when one of the three touch buttons on the external screen are pressed.

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Once activated, the tixels inflate and become squishy that offer tactile keyboard-like feedback.

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